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Before visiting the Boott Cotton Mill, I thought about what it would look like. Everybody knows what a mill looks like, especially an old mill. I expected a large brick building with smoke stacks outside, inside I expected fully functional product producing facil ....

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.... interesting part of this exhibit was the pictures and quotations located outside the Weave Room. Throughout the building, all the pictures with people in them, nobody had a smile on their face. That solidified the impression I had that people weren't happy working in the mills. The quotations from former mill workers also exhibited their unhappiness. Grace May Burk, a former mill worker said, “Work started at 6:30 a.m. and ended at 5:30 p.m., on Saturdays work ended at noon. We got Saturday afternoons off, big deal. No matter how much money I was being paid, I would not work those hours every day. The people of the nineteenth century worked ....